Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 69
Well, now, you are grown up," said the old dowager, her grandmother; "so you must let me adorn you like your other sisters;" and she placed a wreath of white lilies in her hair, and every flower leaf was half a pearl.
Who acts: you, me, body, flower leaf · What happens: grow up, say, let, adorn, like, place · To what, where: you, old dowager, me, other sisters, wreath, hair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, body, flower leaf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 grown | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 grown | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 grown | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grown | aux:pass |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grown | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grown | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grown | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dowager | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dowager | amod |
| 14 | dowager | dowager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grandmother | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dowager | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 let | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 let | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | aux |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | adorn | adorn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 like | nsubj |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 adorn | ccomp |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sisters | amod |
| 30 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 like | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 placed | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 placed | nsubj |
| 35 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 wreath | det |
| 37 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 placed | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 lilies | case |
| 39 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 lilies | amod |
| 40 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 wreath | nmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 hair | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hair | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 placed | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 pearl | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 pearl | cc |
| 46 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 leaf | det |
| 47 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 leaf | compound |
| 48 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 pearl | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 pearl | cop |
| 50 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 52 pearl | det:predet |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 pearl | det |
| 52 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 placed | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present · passive | you | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old dowager and body's grandmother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let | must | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | adorn | infinitive | me not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | like | present | you | your other sisters | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sister=Theme | ||||
| 6 | place in a quote | past | body | a wreath of white lilies | body's hair | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme in hair=Destination | |||
| 7 | is a in a quote | past | every flower leaf | half pearl | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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